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Personal data Henry I OF ANHALT 

• He was born about 1170.
• Title: Count of Anhalt
• Profession: Count.
• He died in the year 1252.
• A child of Bernard OF ANHALT and Brigitte OF DENMARK

Household of Henry I OF ANHALT

He is married to Irmgard OF THURINGIA.

They got married about 1211.

Child(ren):

1. Bernhard I OF ANHALT-BERNBURG  ± 1218-1287 
2. Jutta OF ANHALT   
3. Hedwig OF ANHALT  ????-1259 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Henry I OF ANHALT

Henry I, Count of Anhalt (b. ca. 1170 - d. 1252), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and Count of Anhalt.

He was the oldest son of Bernhard III, Duke of Saxony and Count of Anhalt, by his wife Judith of Poland, daughter of Mieszko III the Old.

After the death of his father in 1212, the surviving sons of the late duke divided his lands according to the laws of the House of Ascania: Henry received Anhalt and Albert the Saxon duchy. In 1218 Henry was raised to the rank of prince (German: Fürst).

Henry's most famous ministerialis (bondsman) was Eike von Repgow from Reppichau, who compiled the Sachsenspiegel, the most important legal code of the German Middle Ages.

Henry also was a renowned Minnesänger. At the beginning of 14th century, five of his Minnelieder (love songs) were copied into the Codex Manesse, an exceptionally beautiful collection. In this source, he is erroneously referred to as a "duke".

Before his death, Henry divided Anhalt between his sons: Henry inherited Aschersleben, Bernhard received Bernburg, and Siegfried took Zerbst. His other surviving sons, Hermann and Magnus, were ordained priests.

Ca. 1211 Henry married Irmgard (b. ca. 1197 - d. ca. 1244), daughter of Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia and second cousin of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor through her paternal grandmother Judith of Swabia. They had eleven children:

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (b. 1215 - d. 12 June 1266).
Judith (d. aft. 14 May 1277), married by 10 March 1233 to Lord Nicholas I of Werle.
Sophie (d. 23 November 1272), first married to Duke Otto I of Merania, secondly to Count Siegfried of Regenstein, and thirdly to Otto of Hadmersleben.
Bernhard I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (b. ca. 1218 - d. 1287).
Albert (d. ca. 1245), a Franciscan monk.
Hermann (d. 1289), a canon in Halberstadt.
Magnus (d. aft. 18 June 1264), a canon in Magdeburg.
Otto (d. aft. 19 July 1246), a canon in Magdeburg.
Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. ca. 1230 - d. Köthen, 25 March 1298).
Hedwig (d. 21 December 1259), married on 8 May 1242 to Duke Boleslaw II of Silesia and Liegnitz-Glogau.
Gertrud (d. 1275), Abbess of Gernrode (1260-1275).

Source: Wikipedia

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